Best Practices

Specialists Should Adapt New Value-Based Payment Models Early

Writing for Urology Times, UCLA urology resident Dr. Alan L. Kaplan suggests others in his specialty should consider Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement a harbinger of changes to come and work proactively:

Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model is a smoke signal for urologists — a low-risk opportunity for us to get ahead of the curve. As a field, we will be well served to think critically about this changing reimbursement paradigm and adapt our practice to stay relevant.

Such forward thinking across specialized medicine will make the industry-wide shift to new payment and reimbursement models much smoother.